What is kinesiology -- Kinesiology = "the knowledge of the movement of the body". Applied Kinesiology and Specialized Kinesiology are types of kinesiology that use muscle testing of the body in order to get information of the quality of the body. In case of reduced quality corrections will be performed so the body can function properly. "The muscle test shows strong" and lets it self influence on performing a certain manipulation (spindlecell technique).

Why muscle test -- The muscle test is our way to communicate with the subconscious. Relying on the ideomotor response we get while muscle testing. The ideomotor response "is derived from the terms 'ideo' (idea, or mental representation) and 'motor' (muscular action). The phrase is most commonly used in reference to the process whereby a thought or mental image brings about a seemingly "reflexive" or automatic muscular reaction, often of minuscule degree, and potentially outside of the awareness of the subject. [Wiki]". It is the art of the practitioner to interpret the information retrieved via muscle testing.

Stressmanagement -- The less qualitative muscle test result (weak) is a measure for felt stress (now and/or in daily life). The used corrections all aim for stress reduction. Hence the statement "Kinesiology is a type of stress management".

Muscle testing -- Also called Muscle monitoring is the positioning of a limb in such a way the focus muscle is maximal shortened. Moving the limb as in direction of the muscle's maximal lenghtening, the muscle testor is "looking" for a felt resitence or not. When resistence is felt the muscletest is called "strong" otherwise its called "weak".

Fix as you go -- A researcher has tends to first look for all options and then make a conscious choice. That is OK, when the system was a conscious one. Using muscle testing one soon experiences the body is non-lineair, and wants to be treat on basis of priority. This is something a practitioner soon sees himself subdued to. Not listening to these clues, the practitioner is in for a much longer correction process.

Touch for Health -- "TfH" in short, is een system that originated from John F. Thie and is seen as a kind of First Aid system with muscle testing. This system focusses on rebalancing bodies energy system.

Edu kinesiology -- A brainchild from Paul Dennison. Coby Schasfoort build her own workshop around this system: "Woordblind" en "Leefblind". This system found followers in the area of Remedial Teaching. The focus of this systen is bringing back balance in Mind Body Spirit.

Three in One Concepts -- Gordon Stokes, Daniel Whiteside en Candice Callaway came with their own variation bringing thee Emotional Behavioral Barometer and knowledge of Structure Function. Structure Function connects certain body traits (structure) with function traits. Also NLP procedures are incorporated. The focus of this system is bringing back balance in Mind Body Spirit.

Applied Physiology -- Richard Utt was initiated by Applied Physiology: "Knowledge of physiology - being able to visualize organ structures - can enhance the power to resolve stress in those structures." This systen has success because of the "mechanical" approach of muscle testing". Muscle testing is called Muscle monitoring.

ONDAMED -- Ondamed is bioresonance machine for genereating tissue related frequencies. So that when applied these frequencies may jump-start the activity of the implied tissue for better life conditions. Focus and frequencies are commonly determined by the application of Vascular Autonome Signal (VAS)-detection.